DMS Quick Capture & Annotate

Screenshot annotation and screen recording plugin for DankMaterialShell.

Documentation

• User Guide: capture workflow, annotation tools, shortcuts, floating images, and IPC commands.
• Documentation Index: architecture, annotation engine, settings reference, and contributor documentation.

Requirements

Dependency	Purpose
DankMaterialShell >= 1.6.0	Required for floating window and scrolling capture
gpu-screen-recorder	Screen recording backend
ffmpeg	Video thumbnail generation
ImageMagick (magick/mogrify)	WebP/JPEG exports and OCR/QR crop
img2pdf	PDF export
tesseract	OCR text scanner
zbar (zbarimg)	QR scanner

Install

Via DMS CLI:

dms plugins install quickCapture

Or manually:

git clone https://github.com/hthienloc/dms-quick-capture ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/quickCapture

Translations

Quick Capture supports native DMS 1.6+ sideload translations located in translations/<locale>.json. Contributions and improvements to translations are welcome!

Language	Locale	Progress	Coverage	Status
Arabic	ar	466/479	97.3%	🟡 In Progress
Bulgarian	bg	68/479	14.2%	🟡 In Progress
German	de	83/479	17.3%	🟡 In Progress
Esperanto	eo	63/479	13.2%	🟡 In Progress
Spanish	es	82/479	17.1%	🟡 In Progress
Persian	fa	58/479	12.1%	🟡 In Progress
French	fr	70/479	14.6%	🟡 In Progress
Hebrew	he	67/479	14.0%	🟡 In Progress
Hungarian	hu	68/479	14.2%	🟡 In Progress
Italian	it	466/479	97.3%	🟡 In Progress
Japanese	ja	80/479	16.7%	🟡 In Progress
Korean	ko	80/479	16.7%	🟡 In Progress
Dutch	nl	67/479	14.0%	🟡 In Progress
Polish	pl	64/479	13.4%	🟡 In Progress
Portuguese	pt	67/479	14.0%	🟡 In Progress
Russian	ru	82/479	17.1%	🟡 In Progress
Swedish	sv	55/479	11.5%	🟡 In Progress
Turkish	tr	43/479	9.0%	🟡 In Progress
Ukrainian	uk	68/479	14.2%	🟡 In Progress
Vietnamese	vi	82/479	17.1%	🟡 In Progress
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-CN	82/479	17.1%	🟡 In Progress
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-TW	62/479	12.9%	🟡 In Progress

Contributing Translations

1. Extract the latest translatable strings:

   python3 scripts/i18n.py extract
   

2. Edit your language file under translations/<locale>.json (or add a new language with python3 scripts/i18n.py add-lang <locale>).
3. Check translation coverage and update the table:

   python3 scripts/i18n.py status --readme
   

Credits

• Quick Capture toolbar
  • Version 1:
  • Version 5:
• Gradia Capture and Noctalia — Inspiration for the toolbar layout and background algorithms
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• Flameshot — Inspiration for the radial menu and tool interaction patterns
• Snapzy — Inspiration for the float image / continue-editing workflow
• vky and bodify (Discord) — Bug reports and feedback that helped polish the plugin

Thanks to everyone who supported, contributed code, gave feedback, and helped the DankMaterialShell community.

License

MIT